Today's Forum Topics
Set as homepage
|
View
New Forum Topics Today's Forum Topics Set as homepage |
 |
|
|||||||
| |
||||
Welcome to CyclingForums.com You are currently viewing our website as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions. You will have to register before you can post to this thread. By joining our free online community you will have access to post new topics, communicate privately with other cyclingforums.com members (PM), respond to polls, upload photos and access other special features like product reviews and classifieds. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread | Display Modes |
07-04.-2004, 04:58 AM
|
#1 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Beloki Prediction...
He's not going to make it through the first week of le Tour the way
he's going now. I think he's all done, at least for this year. Jan is looking slow as well (I wish that he wasn't). Armstrong on the top step again this year in Paris. Tom |
|
|
07-04.-2004, 05:07 AM
|
#2 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Beloki Prediction...
"Tom Arsenault" <giantcu92@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:b44a1227.0404061158.9485c1b@posting.google.com... > He's not going to make it through the first week of le Tour the way > he's going now. I think he's all done, at least for this year. Jan > is looking slow as well (I wish that he wasn't). Armstrong on the top > step again this year in Paris. > > Tom Beloki is doubtful, but it's still rather early to draw any conclusions for Jan or Lance, especially Jan. |
|
|
|
07-04.-2004, 05:15 AM
|
#3 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Beloki Prediction...
Tom Arsenault wrote:
> He's not going to make it through the first week of le Tour the way > he's going now. I think he's all done, at least for this year. Jan > is looking slow as well (I wish that he wasn't). Armstrong on the top > step again this year in Paris. > > Tom I tend to feel the same way about JB. I actually wonder if that fall didn't ruin his career, only time will tell. I disagree with your acessment of JU, however, he's alway been slow off the blocks early season. At the risk of reprtition July is 4 months away. |
|
|
|
07-04.-2004, 05:22 AM
|
#4 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Beloki Prediction...
Does anyone remember at what speed did Beloki crash?
|
|
|
|
07-04.-2004, 05:24 AM
|
#5 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Beloki Prediction...
On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:15:17 -0600, Faster Bordello wrote:
> I actually wonder if that fall didn't ruin his career, > only time will tell. It took Erik Dekker 2 years to come back on top from a broken hip. |
|
|
|
07-04.-2004, 06:23 AM
|
#6 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Beloki Prediction...
"Callistus Valerius" <jazzyboss@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news  kEcc.18276$lt2.4675@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...> Does anyone remember at what speed did Beloki crash? > > I seem to remember 45mph... |
|
|
|
07-04.-2004, 06:42 AM
|
#7 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Beloki Prediction...
"Faster Bordello" <Fast@Bordello.com> wrote in message
news:c4v338$4ad$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... > Tom Arsenault wrote: > > > He's not going to make it through the first week of le Tour the way > > he's going now. I think he's all done, at least for this year. Jan > > is looking slow as well (I wish that he wasn't). Armstrong on the top > > step again this year in Paris. > > > > Tom > I tend to feel the same way about JB. I actually wonder if that fall > didn't ruin his career, only time will tell. I disagree with your > acessment of JU, however, he's alway been slow off the blocks early > season. At the risk of reprtition July is 4 months away. Beloki is having a lot of problems related to fear and pain from his extensive injuries. I think that come July he'll be past most of them but I'd be surprised to see him in the running his first year back from those sorts of injuries. But obviously he'll be a force next year. Jan is right on target. Lance is SLOWWWWWWW right now. I don't know what that will translate into come July. |
|
|
|
07-04.-2004, 04:45 PM
|
#8 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Beloki Prediction...
Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:15:17 -0600, Faster Bordello wrote: > >>I actually wonder if that fall didn't ruin his career, >>only time will tell. > > > It took Erik Dekker 2 years to come back on top from a broken hip. I winder how much of that time was phyiscal recovery and what portion was mental? JB may be physically ready to ride the bike but a crash like that could really put a mental block in place.... |
|
|
|
07-04.-2004, 09:35 PM
|
#9 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Beloki Prediction...
"Faster Bordello" <Fast@Bordello.com> wrote in message news:c50bge$gvn$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... > Ewoud Dronkert wrote: > > > On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:15:17 -0600, Faster Bordello wrote: > > > >>I actually wonder if that fall didn't ruin his career, > >>only time will tell. > > > > > > It took Erik Dekker 2 years to come back on top from a broken hip. > > I winder how much of that time was phyiscal recovery and what portion > was mental? JB may be physically ready to ride the bike but a crash > like that could really put a mental block in place.... Was it the Criterium International that was his first race back? And he crashed. It didn't look all that bad to me ... kind of a low-speed affair. But he took a nice tumble into a ditch. I'm sure that messed with his head pretty well. He lost 16 minutes on the stage IIRC. Bob C. |
|
|
|
07-04.-2004, 11:11 PM
|
#10 |
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: Beloki Prediction...
Considering that hip surgery leaves you with significant metal
hardware inside your leg, I can sympathize with his desire not to crash and have his leg broken while attached to this metal (that injury is always worse than the original). I had this stainless steeel hardware in my own leg for 18 months until I had it taken out this past summer. As far as "muscular" strength, my own leg was close to 100% within 6 months. I had issues with propriaception though, and had slight difficulty doing stupid little things like balancing and navigating my way around ottomans and chairs in the house. I was warned by the doc after surgery #1 not to subject myself to activity that subjected me to a fall of the same kind (meaning, no bike racing)...And after surgery #2 (hardware removal) not to ride in fast groups, as the holes in my bone needed to fill-in and then solidify and calcify. I am now allowed back to the bike at 100% of my former activity level. Beloki injured himself far worse than I did, so I have no idea what kind of issues he's grappling with. I will admit I'm considering not returning to the peloton though. Faster Bordello <Fast@Bordello.com> wrote in message news:<c50bge$gvn$1@terabinaries.xmission.com>... > Ewoud Dronkert wrote: > > > On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:15:17 -0600, Faster Bordello wrote: > > > >>I actually wonder if that fall didn't ruin his career, > >>only time will tell. > > > > > > It took Erik Dekker 2 years to come back on top from a broken hip. > > I winder how much of that time was phyiscal recovery and what portion > was mental? JB may be physically ready to ride the bike but a crash > like that could really put a mental block in place.... |
|
|
Linear Mode
